Usually means: Caught in conflict between two.
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  1. crossfire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. crossfire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. crossfire: Collins English Dictionary
  4. crossfire: Vocabulary.com
  5. Crossfire, crossfire: Wordnik
  6. crossfire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. crossfire: Wiktionary
  8. crossfire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. crossfire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. crossfire: Dictionary.com
  11. crossfire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. crossfire: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  17. crossfire: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. CrossFire: Encyclopedia

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noun:  (military) An arrangement of two or more weapons so each can fire diagonally at something in front of a line between them.
noun:  The danger to a third party passing between two belligerents firing at one another.
noun:  The danger to a third party passing between a gunman and his target.
noun:  (by extension) A heated confrontation between opposing factions.

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